Lincoln, the War President: The Gettysburg Lectures

Five Pulitzer Prize-winning historians--Carl Degler, James McPherson, Arthur Schlesinger, Jr., David Brion Davis, and Robert Bruce--join eminent historian Kenneth Stampp and editor Boritt to offer a new understanding of that revolutionary epoch in American history, and of the role of the leader who helped transform the nation. All but one essay published here for the first time. 20 halftones.